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...intense and as soon as the interview starts she is all business, choosing her words carefully as she answers questions.“When [Voith] comes into a room, everyone wants to be with him,” says Voith and Gadgil’s campaign manager Daniel A. Koh ’07. “Everyone wants to be around him, but he acts like you’re the only other person in the world.”Koh is one of Voith’s blockmates and he went to high school with Gadgil at Phillips...
...legal battles for Koh and his students, however, were far from over. Bush changed tactics, and the Coast Guard started sending Haitians home without stopping at Guantánamo. In a defeat for the Yale team, the Supreme Court eventually upheld the Bush policy. Koh also had to juggle a separate case before Johnson that urged the release of the remaining HIV-positive refugees, including Pascal, from the squalid conditions on the naval base...
...getting bogged down in the technicalities of the process. Instead, he infuses the narrative with dialogue and glimpses into the minds of the lawyers and students. These insights are built upon interviews with nearly all of the key participants—Goldstein notes that he formally sat down with Koh 27 times and Pascal 34 times. The character-centered thrust of the book and the easy language makes the complex story accessible to everyone...
However, Johnson’s forceful decision did not fare as well. Realizing that the higher courts would overturn the ruling anyway, Koh agreed to have the opinion vacated as precedent. That didn’t affect the status of the refugees, who had already been admitted to the U.S.—but it did mean the ruling wouldn’t be binding for similar cases in the future. In exchange, the Justice Department offered to offset part of the university’s legal fees. As a former presidential adviser told Goldstein, the administration wanted...
...left the profession to pursue writing, and late the next year, he started to work on his first book. Not surprisingly, “Storming the Court” is immersed in law, focusing on the protracted legal battles that now-Yale Law Dean Harold H. Koh ’75 and a shifting band of students fought against the elder Bush and Clinton administrations on behalf of Haitian refugees detained at Guantánamo Bay. The book began as a tale about America’s occasional betrayal of its age-old reputation as a haven for refugees...